Rainbow Brite (real name: Wisp) is a young girl who helps to bring color to the world, accompanied by the seven Color Kids, Twink the sprite, and Rainbow's horse, Starlite.
Rainbow Brite and her allies frequently have to deal with the schemes of Murky Dismal, a short, mustachioed villain who, along with his oafish henchman Lurky, tries to make all of Rainbowland as dark and gloomy as his lair in The Pits.
Quite prominent in
DeviantART, where most of the fan art features Rainbow Brite as a scene kid or an
animesque Magical Girl.
Tropes:
- All Your Colors Combined
- Animesque
- Belligerent Sexual Tension - Rainbow Brite and Krys acted like this in The Movie, with Rainbow as the Tsundere and Krys as the Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
- Blooper - In the first episode, we see that Murky and Lurky have captured Lala Orange, Indigo and Buddy Blue. When Wisp and her group rescue them, Buddy's been switched with Patty, who had actually been rescued earlier.
- Conveniently an Orphan - Wisp, alias Rainbow Brite.
- Cool Horse - Starlite certainly thinks he is. Actually, every horse in the show is a Cool Horse.
- Ask any girl who watched this while she was growing up, and she will insist that Starlite is the Most Magnificent Horse in the Universe.
- Cosmic Keystone - the Sphere of Light. Fridge Brilliance when you realize it's Rainbow Land's sun.
- Crapsack World - Rainbowland before Wisp arrived.
- Darker and Edgier - Sure, The Movie starts with a nice and cheerful song about spring and waking up and being energetic and the first 15 minutes or so go on just like any other Rainbow Brite episode... and then the robot horse arrives and the cheerfulness goes right out the window not to be seen until the very end. And believe me, it does get dark before that.
- This, however, made it awesome.
- There's also "The Beginning of Rainbowland Part 1 and 2" which showed that Rainbowland had been a Death World before Wisp brought color into it.
- Death By Despair - A late spring results in mass depression for the Earth in The Movie.
- The Eighties - Just look at the wardrobe, dude...
- Everything's Better with Rainbows
- Everything's Better With Sparkles
- Everything's Better with Princesses - Inverted in The Movie. The Dark Princess is a spoiled Robber-Baron sorceress who wants to shanghai Spectra, a star-sized diamond without which the cosmos will wither and die. Oh, and she also uses her (lifeless) pet gemstone as ship fuel when things don't go her way...
- Freudian Excuse - It is revealed in the episode "Mom" that when Murky was an infant, he loved colors, and he expressed this by coloring on the walls. This angered his mother, who told him, "You're going to get rid of every bit of that color if it takes you all day, if takes you the rest of your life."
- Girliness Upgrade- The new doll series.
- Girlish Pigtails - All the girls in Rainbow Land, except for the short-haired Canary and Lala.
- Hair of Gold - Rainbow Brite herself
- Happiness in Slavery - The Sprites
- Heartwarming Orphan - Wisp, the girl who would become Rainbow Brite.
- Innocent Panties: Rainbow Brite had a panty shot in "The Mighty Monstromurk Menace Part 2" when she nearly fell off a rainbow while escaping from the evil Pits. Patty O'Green is a walking Innocent Panty Shot.
- Keep Circulating the Tapes - The only part of the show to get DVD treatment was the movie back in 2004.
- Live-Action Adaptation - "Rainbow Brite: San Diego Zoo Adventure"
- MacGuffin Girl - The baby in the origin episode, who is actually the Sphere of Light.
- Merchandise Driven: And how!
- Meganekko - Shy Violet
- Mini Dress Of Power
- Minion with an F in Evil - Lurky
- Mordor - The Pits
- The Movie - "Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer"
- Not So Harmless: Murky had his moments, such as when he captured and tortured Moonglo with light. In the same episode he nearly killed Rainbow by pushing her into a pit.
- Not Quite Flight: Starlite can gallop on rainbows as if on solid ground, but he still needs Rainbow to create them for him.
- Painting The Colors On Leaves- The basic point of the show.
- Parental Bonus - The name of Color Kid Red Butler, Murky mixing a potion in a cocktail shaker and pouring it into a martini glass, etc. Double as Late to the Punchline moments for those of us rewatching the cartoons as adults.
- Race Lift - Indigo's skin in "The Beginning of Rainbowland" is light in one scene.
- Rainbow Motif: The Color Kids.
- Remember the New Guy - Stormy, Moonglo and Tickled Pink show up in episode 4 with absolutely no explanation. In the same episode, Starlite looks at Murky's Paper-Thin Disguise and muses, "I thought I knew all the Colour Kids."
- Really 700 Years Old - According to an offhand remark in an early episode, possibly everyone in Rainbowland, and definitely Murky at least.
- Shrinking Violet - Shy Violet.
- Spring Is Late - In Star Stealer.
- Sugar Bowl - Which does not preclude the occasional threat of a Sugar Apocalypse.
- Token Minority - Indigo is black East Indian.
- Tsundere - Stormy, arguably.
- World-Healing Wave
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair - Most of the cast, Rainbow and LaLa being exceptions.
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